Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written. ↗
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. ↗
I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five. ↗
We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music. ↗
United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing? ↗